If the Republicans take the House, they'll impeach Biden by the end of 2023.

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If the Republicans take the House, they'll impeach Biden by the end of 2023.

I examine why the experiences of 1998 and 2011 show the dynamics that will lead us there almost inevitably:

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Opinion | If Republicans take the House, they’re going to impeach Joe Biden
Impeach Biden for what? Whatever. Trump will demand revenge, and the base will demand action.
12:51 PM · Aug 30, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/republicans-house-impeach-biden/

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Republicans are already planning investigations to embarrass the president if they win control of the House, though they have yet to decide whether to impanel a permanent select committee on Hunter Biden or merely spread a dozen Hunter Biden investigations among existing committees.

For a moment there, you weren’t sure if I was joking, were you? The truth is that there will indeed be Hunter Biden investigations if the GOP takes over, since what to do about the president’s pitiable son is clearly the most pressing challenge America faces; only the permanent select committee idea is fanciful.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who would lead the Oversight and Reform Committee in a GOP House, says Hunter Biden would be one of its top targets. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a Fox News personality with a side gig as a member of Congress, will be spearheading the effort.

But Hunter probes — along with desk-pounding hearings on other alleged Biden administration misdeeds designed to generate sound bites to be replayed nightly on Fox — will not satisfy the constituency of a GOP majority. Which is why pressure will immediately begin building to impeach President Biden.

For what, you ask? For whatever. It doesn’t matter; what matters is the cycle Republicans will be locked into, in which they both create and respond to the base’s demand for more combativeness, more scandal and, ultimately, a way to strike a fatal blow at the president they loathe.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Been saying this for months. Except I think they will try to impeach at least three times...

you know just to own the libs....

[Runningdawg]

2. They wont need to, the plan is disband congress, disband the SCOTUS and begin the next crusade.

Due process will be the first to die along with any of their neighbors not waving a Trump flag.

[onenote]

26. Wow. Only second post and we've got crazy talk.

[Runningdawg]

29. Scuttlebutt around the old MAGAts table at the local donut hole. Just another day in OK.

[wryter2000]

3. The base wants more combativeness?

Have they not been watching/ I wonder if this can be made an issue in the current campaign.

[liberal N proud]

4. Just because they are vindictive

[PJMcK]

5. Not a chance

They'll impeach President Biden by the middle of March, 2023.

Probably earlier.

Because, you know, Republicans.

[SoCalDavidS]

9. This Is Exactly Correct

It would be the very 1st thing they do in January 2023.

[Meadowoak]

6. Vote like we're 10 pts. behind

[hadEnuf]

7. This among other things are why the GOP needs to be put out of power.

It's all a game to them. Right, wrong, the country as a whole, means nothing to them.

Actual conservatism, for whatever it was worth, is long gone. There is nothing left except for complete lunatic assholes, outright criminals and violent terrorists.

[Mr.Bill]

8. I think they will do it on a

weekly if not daily basis for two years.

[TheRealNorth]

10. Who gives a shit

They impeached Bill Clinton for lying about a BJ, and that didn't turn out helping them. I don't see this ending any better for them.

[spooky3]

11. And I think Dems will take the Senate. No conviction. Nt

[PortTack]

20. Agree. The gqp has no chance of winning the senate, even if they did they will never reach 2/3

[dchill]

12. ...and it will be a badge of honor - considering the source.

[Fullduplexxx]

13. It's just childish tit- for-tat bullsht

[NYC Liberal]

22. Henry Hyde admitted the GOP only impeached Clinton as revenge for

Nixon being forced to resign. It took them 6 years to find something they could twist into an impeachable offense. And then they lost seats in the subsequent midterm.

[Fullduplexxx]

24. Right so now they'll make sure to impeach Biden 3x

[honest.abe]

14. Impeached for not being a wacko lunatic like their guy.

They will probably regret it as I don't think this will go over well among the independents and moderate R's.

[live love laugh]

15. Wa$ting billion$

[TheRealNorth]

16. They are counting on Democrats getting all worked up....

So that the MSM will cover their political theatre

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Can't do it without 16 democratic senators.

Didn't they learn from the two failed impeachments against Trump?

Wasting time to take down a sitting president instead of making progress for the country.

[honest.abe]

19. The House can impeach without the Senate.

But without the Senate there is no conviction and no removal from office. However the impeachment still sticks.

[bullimiami]

18. They can impeach him 50 times. It will still be a pile of bullshit and only make them look weaker

[PortTack]

21. Nailed it!

[pnwmom]

23. And if they succeed in their most demented dreams by winning a Senate conviction, then what?

Welcome to President Kamala Harris.

[Amishman]

25. Whatever, it accomplishes nothing

If they want to waste time on it, they have have fun with their little impeachment party.

[onenote]

27. They'll do it to appease their base. But it won't expand it.

[Corgigal]

28. They never think for once second

about any citizens of this country. Nothing but wasting taxpayers money for B movies.

So we just say No.

[Celerity]

30. I think it will not just be Biden they impeach, and they will try & censure and perhaps try to expel

Dems from the House. They will definitely go after all or most of the Squad, and Pelosi as well.

If the Rethugs win the House, the ultra MAGAt crew will turn it into a nuclear-powered shitshow. McCarthy the worm will be powerless to stop it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. House GOP reveal they intend to impeach the most scandal-free President and Administration

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